Loved this story!

Off to Futurescapes Firenze, looking forward to a great workshop with a bunch of lovely people!

Now, like any time, is a good time to mention that if you want to read about Ukrainian literature in English, @chytomo.bsky.social is now on Bluesky!!

Very honored for my story "The Buried House" to be in this issue with a group of great writers!

Beyond excited for the first TCL of 2025 and also the first issue I got to vote on all the stories :) #booksky #writingcommunity #bookrecs #sff #scifi #fantasy

Wonderful article! I usually have so many thoughts about writing complex protagonists (motivation vs agency etc.) but as I slide into second draft and editing mode with my trademark passive FMC, I really needed to read someone else’s informed opinion on this topic! #amwriting #fantasy #romance

We’re in the final stages of reading for the Spring 2025 issue. If you’ve been sitting on an epic space opera story, now is the time to submit! thecoloredlens.com?page_id=137752 #sff #writingcommunity #scifi #spaceopera #sffwriters

The days are getting shorter, the evenings darker, so we’d love to share this wonderful cozy fantasy “Fiona and the Fairy Queen” by A.P. Golub to brighten up your day! thecoloredlens.com?p=140248 #SFF #storyrecs #fantasy #cozy #writingcommunity

The fluffiest (in multiple ways!) story I have ever written 👇👇👇

I’m creating a 2025 debut authors starter pack, let me know who I should be adding! Shares appreciated 💙📚 go.bsky.app/RYHeizd

This is a really good thread on why these types of accounts exist and what the goal is! Manipulating the temperature of the conversation and setting people on edge serves a *lot* of purposes. #BadActorBingo

Folks, I'm really proud that when chuds show up in my comments to take a crap on my timeline, by and large your response is... nothing. You are truly living the magic of "don't engage the assholes" and I love that for all of us. And then I block em and they're gone forever. You're great! Thank you.

So that’s the Fantasy Author Starter Pack Part 3 complete at 150 accounts. go.bsky.app/TqJh8aA 1/4

Happy book re-release day, Fire Heart! 🔥💖🗡️ www.snowywingspublishing.com/book/fire-he... (buy links!) Ahhhhhh!!! #NovRelease #YAlit #kidlit #sapphic Cover design and art by @yasuartstudio.bsky.social.

I’ve been trying to evade the shadow daddy trope for a year now. It’s really harder than it looks, people! #WritingCommunity #amwriting #romantasy #fantasy

I’m all for the “sure, why not” approach as well!

IT’S OUT!!!!!! i wrote “Change Your Mind” to process my feelings around a friend break-up and also kind of sort of my ride on the SSRI carousel 💊 this one is near & dear to me. The last pill might unmake me. I don’t care. You already took care of that. smallwondersmag.com/piece/change...

Such a great idea!

🍃🍂🍁 If you like your cozy fantasy with a twist of anarchy, check out my TCL Autumn issue personal favorite “The Meaning of Baskets” by Katie Gray #kindleUnlimited #SFF #bookrecs #fantasy #BookLovers

Lovely fairy lights in the forest 🍄🍄‍🟫

I’ve often missed out on the fun con and intensive workshop stuff due to traveling requirements and CET time difference. So I’m beyond excited that the Futurescapes Summer Intensive Workshop is in Florence the coming year. Hope to see some of you there! #sff #fantasy #amwriting #WritingCommunity

Pinned resources post! 📌 📝 20 successful queries. 📚 6 nonfiction proposals. 🦸🏽‍♀️ A guide to writing IP! 🔎 A guide to finding agents. All free. Though coffee is welcome! www.ericsmithrocks.com/perfect-pitch And a starter pack for finding literary agents who are here on BlueSky. go.bsky.app/EFopcRo

A song you like with a number in its title: Disco 2000 is iconic! youtu.be/qJS3xnD7Mus?...

My gig-worker firefighter story is out and ready to scare you about our near future! Yay! And there are so many other good stories here too

As a fantasy romance writer, I find this very funny Description of a Guy in a Fantasy Romance Novel www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts... #writingcommunity #fantasy #romance #booksy

For a small fee, I will attend your enemy’s writing group and suggest that they need to change their story’s POV

Today is my birthday but also my book's birthday! Dreidel of Dread is unleashed upon the world. Get a copy or, if you want to congratulate me without spending money, please leave a review on Amazon or Goodreads for any of my books you've read! alexshvartsman.com/2024/11/19/d...

It’s such a treat to work with so many talented authors! We do publish longer debuts, like Julie’s wonderfully immersive novelette In the Shadow of the Perch. #booksky #books #kindleUnlimited #scifi #SFF #fantasy #WritingCommunity thepalaceat4am.wordpress.com/2024/11/11/i...

If you're looking for speculative fiction publications (podcasts, zines, publishers) here on Bluesky, I have two starter packs and I keep adding to these, so you might want to check in occasionally for updated lists! bsky.app/starter-pack... bsky.app/starter-pack...

The Colored Lens is now on Bluesky 💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻 @thecoloredllens.bsky.social

we all love TOR/Orbit/other big SFF pubs, however, i want to spotlight some small/indie press novellas i've read this year and enjoyed the heck out of! 1. Ghost Apparent by @jelenawrites.bsky.social

"Don't Engage, Just Block" absolutely IS the Bluesky motto. The notion of a "Bluesky Elder" is vaguely ridiculous but the ONE THING that we oldheads are good for is telling the new folks that blocking without engagement is praxis, and encouraging them to do it early and often.

Can’t join myself due to the CET time difference but hope someone who can will see this and join in my stead 😃 Can’t wait to read and review The Factory!

Thread. Rah has been doing trust and safety since the dawn of social media, before it was called trust and safety. Frankly it's silly bsky didn't throw money at her until she agreed to work there.

"People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within." Words of wisdom from Ursula K. Le Guin 🖤

A gentle reminder that if we miss the 1.5°C target (and we certainly will), the next target is 1.51°C and not 2°C. We need to keep fighting. Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.

Have y’all had a chance to check out our rural fantasy story of the week? It’s a flip on the classic “Chosen One” story. Head over to FFO to read “Hazards of Being Related to the Chosen One” by Emmie Christie for free READ HERE: www.flashfictiononline.com/article/haza... #fantasy #flashfiction

If you're part of the writing community, could you please holla and RT so we can find each other? I want to build up what we once had on Twitter (but better) #writers #writing

ICYMI, featuring original work by writers from around the world; @samitbasu.bsky.social @vajra.me @aliettedb.bsky.social Ganzeer, Cassandra Khaw, @lavanya.bsky.social @architamittra.bsky.social @sloanesloane.bsky.social @bruces.bsky.social @wtalabi.bsky.social @lavietidhar.bsky.social:

I had a blast at the Futurescapes Fall Workshop! Four days of workshopping your query package with some very talented writers and amazing faculty: what’s not to like? But the first time an industry professional refers to your writing as “absolutely spectacular”: a girl will never forget that!

Loved it! Looking forward to the Winter issue!

2) Please help me be seen as an editor and genre voice. I have terrible anxiety and ptsd and have been burned so many times with rejection that it's becoming harder for me to try and network, including applications everywhere. I'd love to be invited to podcasts, shows, cons, interviews!

Hi to all the new folks! I read a lot, review stuff for BSFA Review and share work I admire here on Bluesky. I also want to start sharing more about my own writing journey, writing courses, intensive workshops, writing coaches, manuscript revisions, looking for an agent that sort of thing.

Stepping into November with Jessica Bromley Bartram’s nonchalant beast! smallbeerpress.com/lcrw/2024/10...

Guys, you know Bluesky doesn't suppress links in skeets, right? We all know that? You don't have to split up the skeet and the link and in fact if you are posting about your crowdfunding, you gotta stop it. Put the link to the site in EVERY SKEET.

🎉WisCon will be having an online convention in 2025!!🎉 WisCONline 2025 will take place Memorial Day weekend as always (May 23-26, 2025.) There are still important volunteer roles to fill! Details here: wiscon.net/2024/10/11/a...

So excited for this issue of The Colored Lens, the first one I helped out on, highly recommend! www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJC2G5SW/ #sff #readerscommunity #writerscommunity #bookrecs

as the sun sets on this tiny remote italian mountain village where i have travelled with a group of historians of witchcraft and the inquisition, i realize with shock that it has not occurred to me that im literally in the opening scenes of a horror movie

Last week to pre-order two wonderful and important books. More here, in the words of these communities themselves, about why seeing and sharing these books is so important. mailchi.mp/8ab95ecd0adf...